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In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to control ragwort, an agricultural weed. [1] Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing ...
New Zealand's first ever Test matches, a home series of four three-day games against England.Series won 1–0 by England 10,11,13 January Lancaster Park, Christchurch.New Zealand (112 and 131) lost by eight Wickets to England (181 and 66/2).
The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The top 30 of this selection was used to create the Nature's Best CD and the rest of the list for follow-up compilations.
The music of New Zealand has been influenced by a number of traditions, including Māori music, the music introduced by European settlers during the nineteenth century, and a variety of styles imported during the twentieth century, including blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, reggae, and hip hop, with many of these genres given a unique New Zealand interpretation.
The First Labour Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand from 1935 to 1949. Responsible for the realisation of a wide range of progressive social reforms [1] during its time in office, it set the tone of New Zealand's economic and welfare policies until the 1980s, establishing a welfare state, a system of Keynesian economic management, and high levels of state intervention.
On the Friendly Road is a 1936 film from New Zealand which told a story of New Zealand in the Depression. [1] [2] It was made in and around Auckland, using local actors and locally-made cameras. [3] It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki ) which lay
1930s in New Zealand by city (4 C) / 1930s disestablishments in New Zealand (8 C) 1930s establishments in New Zealand (11 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1930 in New Zealand (3 C, 5 P)
The Cakekitchen; Edwin Carr; Shayne Carter; Cassandra's Ears; Che Fu; The Checks; The Chicks; The Chills; Clap Clap Riot; Jemaine Clement – member of folk/pop/comedy duo Flight of the Conchords